Railroad-rail holder.



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f @A @uw s'rATiJs PATENT onrion i FIRM B, Brisas, or wLLiAitisPoRr, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAILROAD-RAILHOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 4, 1907.

Application iledOctober 17, 1906. Serial No. 339.328.

To 11N roh/ont it 'may concern.:

Beit known tha't'l, Finn B. Bruns, a citizen of the United States, residing at AWilf hamsport, in the county of ycomin and.A

`Statc of ,Penusylvania, have invente new and useful Improvements in Railroad-Rail Holders, of. which the following is a specifi-.

i' cation. l

g The object of my invention is the provision iQ of means. for ret 'Iig therailsoi` a railroad track in their roper positions relative to the ties and to eac i other under all conditions of A service. x

The length of the rail commonly in use is approximately sixty feet. Attempts have been made touse rails of greater lengths, for example, eighty or one hundred feet, which in the hotv season of the year under the'action of high temperature have buckled drawing 3 kling. and ending or displacement obviated.'

Further, it consistsincertain novelties of 3 5 construction and combinations of parts. here- ,inater set forth and claimed." The accompanying drawing illustrates on example and a modiiicationof the physical embodiment of the invention constructed acic'- eording. to the best modes I have so far de`- -vised for the practical application of the prin- Clyde.- 'j I "v l 4Figure 1 is a side view, iii-elevation of a p ortion ofv a ltr ck showing the means for ani 5 cher-ing an, holdin therail to' the ties, the 'retaining plates in t is instance being located Aapproximately at the center of a long rail. Fig. 2 is, a side view in elevation illustrating the retaining and anchoring means applied .50 the meeting ends ofv two separate track rails. Fig. 3 a cross section of Fig. l taken between the ties. l? 4 illust-'rates a modifit-'ation wherein the base of a plate has a curved in lieu of' a horizontal surface for entop surface of atie'. listening to the several figures, tlie numera] l designates the track rail; z, Lne flanvcd base thereof;- 3, the web of a rail having holes therethrough; 4, the ties, which in this 4instance are of wood; 5, tie plates; 6, thcweb of the tie plates; 7, the base of the plate; 8,.lugs downwardly projecting from the lower surface of the plates' to a distance 9, a longitudinal recess or seat in a plate to, receive the flangoiat one side of the base of which are passedl through the webs of the plates and the rails; 12, spikes, the heads of Shanks thereofl enter the body of the ties; and 13, in Fig. 4,. figa rounded or curved surface gages the top' of a tie land prevents a movement of the rail and plates longitudinally of the tie.

The `downwardly projecting lu 's 8 are preferably angular in, shape and ave the surfaces 14, 15, inclined toward each other so as to meet and form an,ed e 16, as shown. The lu are of such a nurnI er and so dis- 4lace the 'upperside edges of the tie will be ii'ictionall engaged bythe inclined surfaces thereof. lhs length f the plates may be such'as to extend over one, two ormore ties,- Fand a pair of lugs are to be rovided for each tie whatever maybe the ength of the tie plates.` i

In Fig..1 the tie late are shownlocated at the center of the ength of a rail. owever, a plurality ofplates may be pr vided for eachrail intermediate. of its ends, the

rail.

In Fig. 2 the tie lates are shown located at the ad'acent en of two rails, thus constituting joint plates.`

which engage the edges of the plates and the From the foregpin description taken inl sufficient to engage the top side edge of a tie;

the rail; 10,' 'jhols in the'plates; 11, bolts at the under surface of a tie plate which enposed t at when the tie plates are bolted in number depending upon the length of the IOO IIO

, from normal parallel positions,-

.web o the rail and to the-ties.V u"3.-'lfhe' combinationwith the adjacent:

ment of the invention other and similar i will not be i regarded 4plurality 0f lugs with inclined surfaces which .engage the op ,being rovide @placement upon curves, the said lu s will revent side l movement of the rails ang their The ends of -t-he rails at a joint are likewise l held together 4When the)1 tend vto contract i under the influence of low temperature. l -While 'I have illustrated andv described Q only one example of the-physical embodiing provided'at their under surfaces with a osite sides of each tie; means for jsecuringthe plates to the ends of two track rails, of a plurality of ties; and tie plates; said tie plates being provided .with projecting lugs at their under surfaces which engage opposite sides of each tie, said ties being located at.' opposite sides of the ends of the two rails.

4. lThe combination with a track rail; of

ties; and two tie plates; each of said plat-es having a longitudinal recess or groove to re ceive. the flange at the base' of the rail, and also a pair of downwardly projecting lugs with .oppositely inclined surfaces, for. the purpose specified.

5. 'The combination with a track rail, of ties; and two tie lates; eachoi said plates having a longitudinal recess or groove to receive thelanges at the base of a rail, a pair of downwardly projecting lugs and a curved surface 13 at the base where the plate engagesthe top surface of a tie.

in testn'nony whereof I al'lix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

FIRM B. BYERS.

'itnesses'. A

F. E. STEBBINS, JOSEPi F. SUPFJ? 

